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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 7655890" data-attributes="member: 87576">Gee, that was unnecessarily pedantic.Look at the overwhelming bulk of the conversations and posts at Candlekeep: they're about the pre-Plague Realms. Sure, Ed can throw off ideas for you about any era of the Realms, published or not, but the reality is that the overwhelming focus on discussion at Candlekeep in about the pre-Plague Realms.Is that a fair enough assessment of the current state of play or do I need to dig through a couple of years' worth of questions to Ed and analyse them by era and provide you with a percentage?(BTW, I was also really happy to see George's work on Impiltur finally getting released. I compiled all of his posts on various forums into another document last year so am looking to merge the two at some point. Unfortunately some of it is copyrighted material - like the entire Dragon article - so I suppose I will be keeping it for personal use.)Yeah, I understand my perspective on RAS is not shared by a lot of people otherwise he wouldn't be a best-selling author. He reminds me, though, of George Lucas in that he has become a parody of his former self. With the Star Wars franchise we got the gungans; with the Drizzt franchise we got dwarves that are inevitably brain-damaged and speech-impaired and possibly saddled with the worst names in fantasy fiction.Exhibit one: Pi(c)kel. So named because RAS thought it would be funny to name a green-haired dwarf after a pickle and he wanted to see if he could sneak it past his editor. But hey, taste is a subjective thing.I will always be grateful to RAS for two things: The Crystal Shard which remains, even to this day, a marvellous fantasy adventure and for generating enough sales from his books to contribute to making the Realms financially attractive enough to TSR/WotC that they kept the setting alive.Anyway, the real point of my posts is to say to people who like the Realms that it is highly unlikely that WotC is going to be supporting it in the way they did in the past so it's probably a good time to develop a strategy for coping with such an eventuality. My strategy is to use the 4E Realms with as much of the old material as possible... and also to finally getting around to using Eberron and then Dark Sun to run some other games. (And I cannot believe I waited so long to get into Eberron: it's brilliant!)</blockquote>

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